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Vocabulary | Parent | Term | Description |
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696 | Actions | Economic | Share-cropping|Tenantry |
There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR |
695 | Environment | Place | Cottonfield | |
694 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Whippoorwills | |
693 | Environment | Time of Year | Corn planting time | |
692 | Environment | (First level term) | Corn-planting time | |
691 | Environment | Public | Road | |
690 | Aesthetics | Diction | African American vernacular dialect | |
689 | Actions | Perceptual | Looking | |
688 | Environment | Domestic Space | Supper table | |
687 | Environment | Time of Day | Night | |
686 | Actions | Economic | Paying | |
685 | Actions | Economic | Impounding | |
684 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Courage | |
683 | Themes and Motifs | Values | Independence | |
682 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Simile-mask | |
681 | Cultural Issues | Law | Inheritance | |
680 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Blood | |
679 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Mask | |
678 | Relationships | Hierarchical | Child as authority | |
677 | Actions | Emotional | Nurturing | |
676 | Themes and Motifs | Community | Social life | |
675 | Relationships | Hierarchical | Employer-employee | |
674 | Relationships | Marital | Husband-wife | |
673 | Cultural Issues | Labor | Domestic | |
672 | Actions | Violent | Entry | |
671 | Actions | Verbal | Gossip | |
670 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Car | |
669 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Wedding license | |
668 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Temporal projection |
When the narrative gets ahead of itself, for example in "Race at Morning" Event 305.1 begins "Then we seen him for the first time," but that does not actually happen until two Events later, 305.3, "and then suddenly . . . the buck hisself" (305). It doesn't matter whether the narrative is looking forward a dozen sentences or a hundred pages, whenever it explicitly anticipates something that it won't actually depict until a later Event, it's "Temporal projection." SR |
667 | Cultural Issues | Mass Media | Newspaper | |
666 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Shadow | |
665 | Cultural Issues | Violence | Domestic | |
664 | Relationships | Social | Snobbery | |
663 | Actions | Bodily | Sleeping | |
662 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Chivalry | |
661 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Mules | |
660 | Cultural Issues | Law | Evidence | |
659 | Actions | Violent | Hitting | |
658 | Actions | Work | Washing clothes | |
657 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Peer group | |
656 | Relationships | Familial | Mother-son | |
655 | Environment | Place | Crime scene | |
654 | Environment | Domestic Space | Gender stereotype | |
653 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Thinness | |
652 | Cultural Issues | Law | Justice of the Peace | |
651 | Actions | Bodily | Crying | |
650 | Cultural Issues | Age | Youth | |
649 | Actions | Moral | Confession | |
648 | Actions | Moral | Legal surrender | |
647 | Themes and Motifs | Character | Innocence | |
646 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Clock | |
645 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Furniture | |
644 | Cultural Issues | Class | Class consciousness | |
643 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Rural poverty | |
642 | Themes and Motifs | Objects | Junk | |
641 | Aesthetics | Style | Neologism | |
640 | Themes and Motifs | Memory | Remembering passim | |
639 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Femininity | |
638 | Cultural Issues | Gender | Men vs women | |
637 | Actions | Verbal | Taunt | |
636 | Environment | Time of Day | Pre-dawn | |
635 | Cultural Issues | Class | Ambition | |
634 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Auction | |
633 | Themes and Motifs | Time | Watch | |
632 | Actions | Verbal | Command | |
631 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Appearance-plain | |
630 | Actions | Physical | Washing clothes | |
629 | Themes and Motifs | Body | Face | |
628 | Relationships | Marital | Elopement | |
627 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Water | |
626 | Themes and Motifs | Community | African-American | |
625 | Relationships | Marital | Abusive | |
624 | Cultural Issues | Class | Middle | |
623 | Actions | Moral | Prohibiting |
Here in the general sense of interdiction, forbidding, proscribing - rather than "prohibition," i.e. outlawing alcohol. JW |
622 | Aesthetics | Diction | Western vernacular | |
621 | Cultural Issues | Clothes | Women | |
620 | Relationships | Familial | Sibling | |
619 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Shopping | |
618 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Dogs | |
617 | Themes and Motifs | Absence/Loss | Absence as disguise |
This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR |
616 | Cultural Issues | War | Wound | |
615 | Cultural Issues | Race | Hierarchical | |
614 | Environment | Time of Day | Midnight | |
613 | Aesthetics | Narrative | Indeterminacy | |
612 | Actions | Interaction, Social | Elopement | |
611 | Environment | Time of Year | Summer | |
610 | Relationships | Intergenerational | Female | |
609 | Themes and Motifs | Recurring Tropes | Door | |
608 | Aesthetics | Figures of Speech | Simile | |
607 | Environment | Olfactory | Decay | |
606 | Themes and Motifs | Animals | Wild horses | |
605 | Actions | Verbal | Cursing | |
604 | Relationships | Familial | Mother-daughter | |
603 | Environment | Atmospheric | Moonlit | |
602 | Cultural Issues | Identity, Cultural | Rural | |
601 | Themes and Motifs | Chaos/Order | Control | |
600 | Environment | Place | Ditch | |
599 | Cultural Issues | Economy | Auction | |
598 | Aesthetics | Typography/Orthography | Handwriting | |
597 | Relationships | Social | Adversarial |